Confluent incident
Elevated Kafka REST API Errors in AWS us-west-2
Confluent experienced a minor incident on February 24, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 3h 52m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Confluent Cloud
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC
We are experiencing an elevated level of Kafka REST API Errors with error code 429 in AWS us-west-2 and are currently looking into the issue. This issue impacts Kafka eSKU clusters in this regions.
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC
We are currently working on a mitigation.
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Feb 25, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC
Issue has been identified and we are currently deploying the fix.
- resolved Feb 25, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.